I’ve posted quite a bit on here since I created my account, posts I consider non-controversial, since I’m not interested in arguing or getting into heated topics like politics. Even so, I still get the occasional snarky comment. Out of curiosity, I sometimes check the person’s post history when I see something like that, and without fail, their profile is full of snarky, negative, or hateful posts overall. It always makes me wonder: do people like this genuinely get enjoyment from surrounding themselves with negativity? What’s the thought process behind it?

  • myszka@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    Why would a country from the other side of the globe care about quite a niche social network that isn’t present in their cultural bubble?

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      3 days ago

      Divide and conquer. There is irrefutable evidence that they’ve been interfering in elections etc for more than 12 years. I learned this at a national security conference in Germany.

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        2 days ago

        Interfering with elections is something you can easily imagine another country doing. But going to quite a small foreign social network just to spoil its users’ experience? That sounds very weird to me

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      4 days ago

      Because that’s exactly the kind of thing Russians do. They’re culturally obligated to ruin things for everyone else.